by jenny.monds | May 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
I spent a few moments considering this small bowl. Inexpensive, simple glazed earthenware, but a favourite object. There is something about the way the light hits the milky surface, and the generous interior, waiting to be filled with nuts or olives – and...
by jenny.monds | May 13, 2020 | Uncategorized
What does the dandelion bring to mind? Perhaps a tenacious weed spoiling a lawn, perhaps memories of drinking ‘dandelion and burdock’, perhaps the milky white sap, perhaps the chance of dreams coming true, carried on the wind when we puff at the delicate...
by jenny.monds | May 12, 2020 | Uncategorized
Seeing these newspaper ‘spills’ by the open fire in the cosy pub earlier this year took me right back to my childhood. I could see my much younger self and my mother tightly rolling sheets of newspaper then knotting them for her to use with kindling to light the fire;...
by jenny.monds | May 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
Today a holiday souvenir. Oyster shells are everywhere around the Golf du Morbihan, Brittany. As a vegetarian I don’t eat oysters. I can however appreciate the delicate beauty of their hard but light-weight shells, knobbly on the outside and multi layered, the inside...
by jenny.monds | May 9, 2020 | Uncategorized
The wisteria is looking and smelling beautiful at the moment. I’m sad not to be able to draw the beautiful specimen in the perfect walled garden at Mompesson House in Salisbury’s Cathedral Close, but here’s one I made earlier.
by jenny.monds | May 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
Weeds to many but beloved of children (and me), these pretty little double-layered flowers, with pink tips, are a pleasure both to draw and to make into a chain. Something I haven’t done for a very long time.
